Using WYNN The Reading, Writing, Studying Tool from Arkenstone Using WYNN You operate WYNN using the rotating tool bars located at the top of the screen. Each tool bar button is labeled and has an accompanying tool tip. If a button is grayed, it is not currently available. When you first launch WYNN, some buttons will not be available, but once you open or scan in a document, additional buttons become available. Also, some buttons change when you press them, to give you an alternate option. These are called toggle buttons. Only one option shows on the toolbar at a time. WYNN is a Windows program, and many features are familiar to Windows users, including the cursor, the insertion point, the mouse cursor, dialog boxes, and caption buttons. * The cursor is a visual screen element that indicates your exact position in the document. WYNN uses a "spotlight," a brightly-colored block or outline, and a cursor, indicated by a word set off in differently-colored text. * The insertion point is a flashing screen element that indicates the position in the document where text will be entered when you are typing. * The mouse cursor is the on-screen graphic - often an arrow -- that represents the position of your mouse. * Dialog boxes are on-screen windows that open containing selectable buttons, check boxes, and entry fields listing various choices. * Caption buttons are the three standard Windows icons located at the top right corner of the screen. If you press these icons while WYNN is open, you can minimize, maximize or close WYNN. Please note that if you are using WYNN Reader, some tool bar buttons will be grayed to indicate that they are not available to you. On Every Tool Bar Each tool bar begins with the following buttons: Next: Press this button to switch to the next tool bar. Read: Press this button and WYNN reads the open document aloud, moving the cursor along as it reads. This button is an alternate, or toggle, for Pause. Pause: Press this button to stop WYNN from reading aloud. This button is an alternate, or toggle, for Read. Write: Press this button to switch, or toggle, from Read-only mode to Edit mode. When you start WYNN, you are in Read-only mode. Press Write and you switch to Edit mode. Once you have selected Edit mode, you can type directly into the document on the screen. Many word processing conventions will work in Edit mode, such as the delete key and the backspace key. Use Edit to make changes in a word processing file, or on a scanned page. Or use Edit to write an original document from scratch. This button is an alternate, or toggle, for Read-Only. Read-only: Press this button to switch from Edit mode to Read-only mode. When you start WYNN, you are in Read-only mode. This button is an alternate, or toggle, for Write. (A Note about editing: When WYNN reads aloud, it reads the Text View version of the page. If you scan in a page, then edit it in Text View, when you read the page in Exact View, the text on the screen may not match the text WYNN reads aloud. If you are make simple corrections, the difference will be minor. But, if you add or significantly modify the text, you will notice the discrepancy. Other Document: Press this button to switch between two open documents. Note: You can have no more than two documents open at the same time. File Management Tool Bar (Blue) This is the File Management tool bar, which is color-coded blue. On this tool bar you will find buttons that help you scan into, open, close, save, and print files. There is also a button that lets you choose how WYNN displays a scanned page. Each tool bar begins with the Next, Read/Pause, Write/Read-Only, and Other Doc buttons. To learn more about these buttons, see the On Each Tool Bar section, located in the white pages of this guide. Scan: Press this button to begin scanning the page you have placed on the scanner. If you do not have a scanner installed, this button will not be available. Place the page on the scanner first, then begin scanning. While the page is being scanned, a dialog box informs you that WYNN is processing the page. To interrupt scanning, you can press the Cancel button on this dialog box, however, all other buttons and menu items will be unavailable. There may be a slight delay before WYNN interrupts the scanning process. WYNN keeps you posted on the progress of the scanning procedure with a message in this dialog box, and describes the page's orientation on the status bar - the area at the bottom left side of the screen. Once scanning is done, WYNN displays the scanned page on your screen in Text View. When you scan subsequent pages using this button, they are automatically inserted after the page your cursor is on. Note: If you are using WYNN Reader, this tool bar button will not be available to you. Text View: Press this button to display only the text from the page, without graphics, line art, tables, columns and other elements that affect how the page looks. In Text View, you can modify the way WYNN presents the text on the screen using the green Visual Presentation tool bar, or modify the actual text of the file, using the yellow Writing tool bar. WYNN automatically selects this View. You can change to Exact View using the Exact View button (see below). This button is an alternate, or toggle, for Exact View. Exact View: Press this button to display the page on the screen just as it is in the original document. This would include any graphics, line art, tables, columns and other elements that affect how the page looks. While in Exact View, you can read the page, change text and background colors, and Zoom in and out, but you cannot edit the text or modify the way WYNN presents the text on the screen. Some study tools will also be available in Exact View, like the dictionary and spelling functions. To make modifications, you must switch to Text View (see above). You cannot select Exact View if you are reading a text, word processing or other electronic file: this item is only available for files containing scanned pages. Note: When you open a file, it will open in Text View first. You can change to Exact View using this button. This button is an alternate, or toggle, for Text View. Note: This button is available only if you are viewing files with pages scanned using WYNN Wizard. A Note about Exact View and editing: If you scan in a page, then edit the page in Text View (see previous entry), when you read the page using Exact View, the text on the screen may not match the text WYNN reads aloud. This is because WYNN reads aloud using the Text View version of the page. If you have made simple corrections, the difference will be minor. But, if you significantly modified the text, the discrepancy may be noticeable. Therefore, whenever you select Exact View for a page you have edited, WYNN will open a dialog box that warns you that "the Exact View may not match the Text View you have edited." Check Box: * Check "Do not show this message again for this document" if you do not wish to receive this warning each time you move between Text View and Exact View. Button: * Okay closes the dialog box. New: Press this button to create a new document. When you press New, WYNN opens a document. You can type into this document, or scan pages into it, and save it under a new name. Open: Press this button to open a document. Note that you cannot have more than two documents open at a time. If you already have two documents open, WYNN will ask if you want to close the document you are not currently using, then open the requested document. When you press Open, WYNN opens the standard Windows Open dialog box with a list of available files in your personal folder. WYNN is capable of opening most files, including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, ASCII, Text, and RTF files, as well as files you have previously scanned and saved. Note: When you open a previously scanned file, it will open in Text View. You can change to Exact View using the Exact View button (see above). Entry fields: * Click on the file you want to open, or type the name in the "File Name" field. Buttons: * The Open button opens the selected file. Cancel closes the dialog box without opening a new file. A note about opening files: if you create files using a word processing program or other application, those files will be saved in the appropriate location for that application. This will probably not be the same place that your WYNN files are stored. You can open files stored in other locations (including floppy drives) by using the "Look In:" field in the Open dialog box. Close: Press this button to close the document you are currently reading. When you press Close, WYNN asks you if you want to save any changes you have made to the document. These changes include edits and additions, mark-ups inserted into the document (highlighting, bookmarks and notes) and general settings changes (font size, color). However, if you have scanned in additional pages, WYNN automatically save these when you close. Save: Press this button to save the document you are currently reading without closing it. When you press Save, WYNN automatically saves the document. Save As: Press this button to save a copy of the current document under a new name. You can also use this button to choose the file type. The default file type is the Arkenstone (.ark) format, which saves any changes or mark-ups you added to the document in WYNN, such as bookmarks, notes, highlighting, etc. It also saves the Exact View of scanned pages. The other formats only save the actual text - WYNN mark-ups will be omitted. When you select Save As, WYNN opens the standard Windows Save As dialog box with a list of files. Print: Press this button to print the document. When you select Print, WYNN opens the Print dialog box. The printed copy of your file will reflect the text size, font and spacing choices you have selected. If you are using a color printer, your highlighted text will print in color. If you do not have a document open to print, this item will not be available. This feature is only available when displaying a document in Text View. You cannot print the Exact View of a document. Entry fields: * The "Name" entry field in the Printer section indicates which printer is currently selected. To select a different printer, type in the name or select one from the list using the arrow. * The "Pages" entry field in the Print Range section lets you type in the page range you want printed. * The "Number of Copies" entry field from the Copies section lets you print multiple copies. Enter the number of copies by typing it in or using the arrow. Options: The Print Range section offers five ways to determine what part of the document gets printed. Click on the option you wish to choose. * All Pages prints the entire document. * Pages allows you to select a range of pages. You can only select Pages if you have more than one page in the document. * Selected Text Only allows you to print the selected section of the document. You can only choose this option if you have selected text. * Highlight Text Only allows you to print the highlighted section of the document. This is text highlighted with WYNN's Highlighting tool. You can only select this option if you have highlighted text. * Text Notes Only allows you to print the document's text notes. You can only select these options if you have included notes in the document. Buttons: * OK sends the print job to the printer and closes the dialog box. * Cancel closes the dialog box without sending the print job. Visual Presentation Tool Bar (Green) This is the Visual Presentation tool bar, which is color-coded green. On this tool bar you will find buttons that let you determine how WYNN presents the document page: the size of the text, spacing, and margins, and the type of font used. There are also buttons to select specific combinations of text and background colors, change the size of the cursor, or mask out portions of the page - all to make it more readable for you. Note: some features in this tool bar are only available when displaying a document in Text View. Each tool bar begins with the Next, Read/Pause, Write/Read-Only, and Other Doc buttons. To learn more about these buttons, see the On Each Tool Bar section, located in the white pages of this guide. Size: Press this button to choose the size of the document text. Each time you press Size, the size of the font increases, until it returns to the original setting. As WYNN cycles through the options, the text on-screen reflects the new setting. Larger point sizes mean bigger characters on the screen. Line Space: Press this button to adjust the amount of space between each line of text. Each time you press Line Space, the amount of space between lines increases, until it returns to the original setting. As WYNN cycles through the options, the text on-screen reflects the new setting. Word Space: Press this button to adjust the amount of space separating each word. Each time you press Word Space, the amount of space between words increases, until it returns to the original setting. As WYNN cycles through the options, the text on-screen reflects the new setting. Margins: Press this button to adjust the amount of blank space at the right and left sides of the document page. Each time you press Margins, the amount of space on each side increases, until it returns to the original setting. As WYNN cycles through the options, the text on-screen reflects the new setting. Larger numbers mean more blank space on each side of the document page. Font: Press this button to determine the type of font used for text on the document page. When you press Font, WYNN cycles through several fonts. As WYNN cycles through the options, the text on-screen reflects the new setting. Color: Press this button to choose a specific combination of text and background colors to make the page more readable. When you press Color, WYNN cycles through the available color combinations. As WYNN cycles through the options, the text on-screen reflects the new setting. Mask: Press this button to determine which type of masking to use. Masking uses shading to de-emphasize all areas of the text except the area of focus. Note: Masking is only available in Read-only mode. When you press Mask, WYNN cycles through four options: * Line Masking shades the entire page except the line the cursor is currently on. * Sentence Masking shades the entire page except the sentence the cursor is currently on. * Paragraph Masking shades the entire page except the paragraph the cursor is currently on. * No Masking presents the page normally, with no shading. When you are using masking, the Read By button is not available. Read By is only available when you choose No Masking. Read By: Press this button to determine how much of the text WYNN includes in the Spotlight. The Spotlight accentuates a portion of the text using brightly colored emphasis. When you press Read By, WYNN cycles through five options: * Word * 3 Words * Line * Sentence * Paragraph If you choose Read By Word, the Spotlight includes a single word, and moves word by word. With this option, the Spotlight is essentially the same as the cursor. If, however, you choose Read By 3 Words, the Spotlight includes 3 words, and moves through the document in groups of 3 words. Within the Spotlight, WYNN indicates the cursor - your exact position in the document - as a word in differently-colored text. Read by Line, by Sentence, and by Paragraph work similarly to Read by 3 Words, only the Spotlight moves along by line, sentence, or paragraph, respectively. Note: Read By is only available in Read-only mode. Study Tools Tool Bar (Pink) This is the Study Tools tool bar, which is color-coded pink. On this tool bar you will find buttons that give you access to a dictionary and a thesaurus, allow you to add a bookmark, text or voice note to the document, or highlight a section of text. You can also ask WYNN to create a list of highlighted words, or spell a word out loud. Note: some features in this tool bar are only available when displaying a document in Text View. Each tool bar begins with the Next, Read/Pause, Write/Read-Only, and Other Doc buttons. To learn more about these buttons, see the On Each Tool Bar section, located in the white pages of this guide. Dictionary: Press this button to open the dictionary and thesaurus. To look up the definition of a word: Select a word, then press Dictionary. WYNN opens the Dictionary dialog box. Or, once you are in the Dictionary, you can type a word into the "Selected Word" entry field, and WYNN will look it up. Entry fields: * In the "Selected Word" entry field, WYNN indicates the selected word. * In the "Definition" entry field, WYNN gives the definition of the selected word. Buttons: * Read Word reads the selected word aloud. * Look Up Synonyms shifts you into the Thesaurus feature. * The Read keys read the definition aloud, item by item: the button marked << moves backwards and reads; the >> button moves forward and reads. When you press the >> key, WYNN will read one entire definition. You must press the >> key again to read the next definition. * The Close button closes the dialog box. Check Boxes: * Select Show Full Definition if you want to read the most comprehensive definition, including supplemental or related words. If you do not select Show Full Definition, WYNN gives you the basic definition of the word. To look up the synonym of a word: Select a word, then press Dictionary. WYNN opens the Dictionary dialog box. Press the Look Up Synonyms button in the Dictionary dialog box. WYNN shifts to the Thesaurus function. Or, once you are in the Thesaurus, you can type a word into the "Selected Word" entry field, and WYNN will look it up. Entry fields: * In the "Selected Word" entry field, WYNN indicates the selected word. * In the "Synonyms" entry field, WYNN gives a list of synonyms. Buttons: * Read Word reads the selected word aloud. * Look Up Definition shifts you into the Dictionary feature. * The Read keys read the Synonym list aloud, item by item: the button marked << moves backwards and reads; the >> button moves forward and reads. When you press the >> key, WYNN will read one item on the list. You must press the >> key again to read the next item. * The Close button closes the dialog box. Spell: Press this button to spell the word the cursor is on. When you press Spell, WYNN speaks the selected word aloud, spells it letter by letter, then speaks it aloud again. Syllables: Press this button to break the word the cursor is on into syllables. When you press Syllables, WYNN opens the Syllables dialog box. Entry fields: * In the "Selected Word" entry field, WYNN indicates the selected word. * In the "Syllables/Phonetics" entry field, WYNN divides the selected word into syllables, then lists it a second time with diacritical marks, the visual markings that serve as an aid to pronunciation. Buttons: * Read Word reads the selected word aloud. * Read Syllables reads aloud each distinct syllable, breaking the word up by pausing between syllables. * The Close button closes the dialog box. Highlight: Press this button if you want to highlight text. When you press Highlight, WYNN opens a drop-down menu with four options: a green, blue, or pink highlighter, or an eraser. If you don't have any text already selected: When you select your Highlight color, your mouse cursor turns into a "highlighter pen." Drag this over the areas that you want highlighted, and WYNN surrounds the text with a bold color highlight. If you choose the eraser, drag it over an area you had previously highlighted, and it erases the highlighting. You can also choose a color and drag it over an area you had previously highlighted with a different color. WYNN now surrounds the text with the new color highlight. Finally, if you want to highlight a single word, press Highlight, then double click on the word with your mouse. The word will be highlighted. To stop highlighting, press the Highlight button again. If you have already selected an area of text using the mouse cursor or arrow keys: When you press Highlight and choose your highlighter color, WYNN automatically surrounds the selected text with a bold color highlight. If your selected text was previously highlighted and you choose the eraser, it erases the highlighting. If your selected text was previously highlighted and you choose a different highlighter color, WYNN automatically surrounds the selected text with the new color highlight. List: Press this button if you want to create a separate document listing your highlighted text. When you highlight text in a document, WYNN activates this item. Then, when you press List, WYNN opens a drop-down menu with two options: Create by Color and Create in Original Order. If you select Create by Color: WYNN opens a new document with all the highlighted words or phrases in the original document. (If you already have two documents open, WYNN will warn you that it is about to close the one you are not using before creating the List document.) In this new document, WYNN sorts your highlighted text into separate lists by highlight color, each list on a separate page of the document. All items highlighted in green will be listed together, those in blue will be clustered on another page, and those highlighted in pink in yet another. If you select Create in Original Order: WYNN opens a new document with all the highlighted words or phrases in the original document listed in the order that they appear in the original. All text will retain their original highlight color. (If you already have two documents open, WYNN will warn you that it is about to close the one you are not using before creating the List document.) This is the default selection for the Lists drop down menu. WYNN also suggests a name for this new file, using the name of the old document. A list for the document named Harvest.ark would be named Harvest-list1.ark. Once you open a List file, WYNN treats the file just like any other document. All WYNN reading, writing and mark-up tools can be used to read the file, and you can save or print a copy of the marked- up List file. Bookmark: Press this button to insert a bookmark symbol in the document text. When you press Bookmark, WYNN opens a drop-down menu with five bookmark options: a red asterisk, blue circle, green square, yellow triangle, or an eraser. Click on the desired bookmark, and WYNN inserts it at the current cursor position in the open document. If you choose the eraser, drag it over a bookmark and it erases it. Note: Press this button to insert a text note into the document at the insertion point. When you press Note, WYNN opens the Text Note dialog box. Entry fields: * In the dialog box is a large text entry field. To create a note, simply begin typing the note text. While in this entry field, the arrow keys, insert, delete, backspace and carriage return keys all function like they do when you are in a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word. Buttons: * Read lets you hear the note you have inserted read aloud. * OK saves the note, closes the dialog box, and inserts the note symbol in the document as a reminder that you have inserted a note at that point. * Paste allows you to insert text copied from the Windows Clipboard into your note. * Cancel closes the Note dialog box without saving the note or inserting the note symbol in the document. To open a previously created note, double click on the note symbol. The Note dialog box will open at the bottom of the screen. Voice Note: Press this button to insert a voice note into the document at the insertion point. You must have a microphone attached to your sound card to use this feature. Buttons: On the right side of the dialog box are two buttons: * OK saves the note, closes the dialog box, and inserts the Voice Note symbol in the document as a reminder that you have inserted a voice note at that point. * Cancel closes the Voice Note dialog box without saving the note or inserting the symbol in the document. On the bottom side of the dialog box are three more buttons: * Play allows you to listen to a note you have already recorded. * Stop tells WYNN to stop playback of the note. * Record tells WYNN to record your voice and save it as a voice note. Bar: * In the center of the dialog box is a recording bar. This recording bar moves from left to right when WYNN is recording or playing back a voice note. To open a previously created note, double click on the Voice Note symbol. The Voice Note dialog box will open at the bottom of the screen. Writing Tool Bar (Yellow) This is the Writing tool bar, which is color-coded yellow. On this tool bar you will find buttons that help you write, edit, and spell check a document. There is also a button that lets you search for text or markups. Note: Some features in this tool bar are only available when displaying a document in Text View. Each tool bar begins with the Next, Read/Pause, Write/Read-Only, and Other Doc buttons. To learn more about these buttons, see the On Each Tool Bar section, located in the white pages of this guide. Cut: Press this button to remove selected text from the document and copy it to the Microsoft Windows clipboard. You can only use this item if you have already selected text using mouse or arrow keys. Once you have selected the text, press Cut, and WYNN deletes the text from the document and copies it to the clipboard. You can then paste the text into another part of the open document, or into a new WYNN document. This item is only available when you are in Edit mode. Copy: Press this button to copy selected text to the Microsoft Windows clipboard without removing it from the document. You can only use this item if you have already selected text using mouse or arrow keys. Once you have selected the text, press Copy, and WYNN copies the text to the clipboard. You can then paste the text into another part of the open document, or into a new WYNN document. Paste: Press this button to insert text from the Microsoft Windows clipboard into your document. Find the location where you want the text inserted, then press Paste. The text is inserted into the document. You can only use this item if you have already copied selected text into the Clipboard. You can paste the text into another part of the open document or into a new WYNN document. This item is only available when you are in Edit mode. Find: Press this button to find a word or partial word within the open document and replace it with alternate text, or to search for mark-up symbols, such as bookmarks and notes. When you press Find, WYNN opens a drop-down menu with two options: Text or Mark-Up. If you select Text: WYNN opens the Find and Replace Text dialog box. Entry fields: * The "Find What "entry field lets you type in the text you wish to find. To hear the word read aloud, press the CRTL key and the letter "D." * "Replace With" allows you to type in the replacement text. To hear a word read aloud, press the CRTL key and the letter "D." Check Boxes: * "Find exact word only" tells WYNN to search only for occurrences that are whole words, and not part of a larger word. * "Match Case" tells WYNN to search only for occurrences in which the arrangement of uppercase and lowercase characters of the found text matches the arrangement of uppercase and lowercase characters of the search text. Options: In the Search Directions section are two options: * Click on Down if you wish to search from your current point in the document to the end, then search the beginning of the document to your current position. * Click on Up if you wish to search from your current point in the document, backwards to the beginning, then search from the end of the document backwards to your current position. Buttons: * Find Next starts searching for the next occurrence of the word or phrase you have typed. If it finds the text you are seeking, WYNN goes to that text in the document, and places the cursor at that point. If WYNN does not find the text you are seeking, it notifies you. * The Cancel button closes the Find dialog box. * Replace substitutes the replacement text for the "Find" text in the current instance only. * Replace All searches through the entire document, and automatically substitutes the replacement text for the "Find" text in all instances. If you select Mark-Up: WYNN opens the Find Mark-Up dialog box. Options: * In the Find What section are four options: Highlight, Bookmark, Text Note, Voice Note. Click on the mark-up item you wish to find. * Click on Down if you wish to search from your current point in the document to the end, then search the beginning of the document to your current position. * Click on Up if you wish to search from your current point in the document, backwards to the beginning, then search from the end of the document backwards to your current position. Buttons: * Find Next starts the process of searching for the next occurrence of the mark-up you have selected. If it finds the mark-up you are seeking, WYNN goes to that mark-up in the document, and places the cursor at that point. If WYNN does not find the mark-up you are seeking, it notifies you. * Cancel closes the Find dialog box. Go To: Press this button to go to a new page in the open document. When you press Go To, WYNN opens the Go To Page dialog box. If the document does not contain the requested page, WYNN will inform you. This item is only available if the open document contains more than one page. Entry fields: * The "Enter a Page Number" field lets you type in the number of the page you wish to find. Buttons: * Go takes you to the page whose number you have typed into the entry field. * Next Page takes you to the page after the one you are currently on. * Previous Page takes you to the page previous to the one you are currently on. * The Close button closes the Go To Page dialog box. Spell Check: Press this button to open WYNN's spell checker. You can check the spelling of a specific word, or of all the words on a current page. WYNN checks words against a standard dictionary and against your "personal dictionary," a list of words that you can enter. When you press Spell Check, WYNN opens the Spell Check dialog box. Entry Fields: * "Word Not Found" indicates the possibly misspelled word. To hear the word read aloud, press the CRTL key and the letter "D." * "Replace with" lists possible replacement words. Use the mouse or the up and down arrows to move up and down among the choices. To hear a word read aloud, press the CRTL key and the letter "D." Buttons: * Ignore leaves the word in the Word Not Found field unchanged. * Ignore All leaves all occurrences of the word in the Word Not Found field unchanged. * Replace accepts the change suggested in the "Replace with" field for this specific occurrence of the word. * Replace All accepts the change suggested in the "Replace with" field for all occurrences of the word. * Add to Dictionary adds the word to your own list of frequently-used words not found in the standard dictionary. * The Close button closes the Spell Check dialog box. 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